Our Lady Of Creative Choice: “You have my power within you and you are free beyond wildest imagination. Do you know that you are a slave to no thing and to no one? You are a divine being. With the power of creative choice, you can create worlds, my beloved. Even the smallest choice contains great creative power. Do not cast your power aside, my child. Choose to trust me, to live with an open, vulnerable heart, and to let my grace flood through you in rapturous waves of light. Choose wisely, creatively and well. Yet do not fear your power, for the best choice you can make is to learn from all your experiences. I will guide you to use your power to create healing difference in your life now. You have at your disposal the power of Heaven. I will guide you to use it well.

One small stone tossed into a lake can create seemingly endless ripples. So too do our choices create an impact far greater than we might at first expect. Our Lady Of Creative Choice has come to you with a message. No matter what situation is happening in your life, no matter how powerless you may feel to change it or control it, you have so much power here. If you knew how much power you had, you would laugh with relief, and wonder, and reverent joy! You would realize that you don’t have to control anything or anyone in order to feel empowered. Your power doesn’t come from controlling outcomes; it flows from your endless capacity to make choices.

Our Lady Of Creative Choice helps us when we know that the way we have been choosing to be, perhaps feeling reactive or out of control, might not be serving us anymore. Perhaps we have not felt much choice in the past. Perhaps we might have got caught up in feeling frustrated with another, or out of control in certain situations, and all we felt we could do was react. Or perhaps we have become so caught up in just trying to get things done, or work things out, that we forgot that we get to have a say in our lives.

This oracle comes to you as a reminder. You have the power of heaven within you. You don’t need to control life, beloved, but you can choose whether you dance with life responsively, or resist its flow and feel pushed around by it instead. Through paying attention to what is happening for you in the moment – whether that be feelings of happiness or sadness, a feeling of letting go, or moving on, or staying put and learning something – you can then make a choice about how you wish to respond. Your responses to your life circumstances are your choices to make, and a source of great power within.”*

– by Alana Fairchild and Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Our lives are filled with moments of choice, yet we don’t see it as so because we spend so much of it on automatic pilot, plodding through routine, doing things we wish we weren’t doing and repeating the same thought patterns as we do it. Us humans are creatures of habit and when we speak of awareness, enlightenment or higher consciousness, it is actually profoundly simple. In order to reach awareness, become enlightened or expand your consciousness, you just need to WAKE UP and be here now. So easy! Right?

We can make the choice to be mindful of our thoughts. We can choose to process our emotions, even if they are uncomfortable. We can choose who to fill our time with; and make some vitally important time to ourselves. We can decide to take good care of ourselves, to love and accept ourselves. We can choose happiness and peace in the fact of adversity.

Or we can keep sleepwalking and feeling like we are too small to make a difference.

Our Lady Of Quiet Blossoming: “I hear the inaudible, see the invisible, and feel the intangible. I sense the signs of growth before you can do so, beloved. So believe me now as I say to you, you are growing, and you must trust, for the seed needs all its strength to push up into the weighty soil that provides nourishment. It must find its way with absolute intent. Even with the most loving gardener tending to it, great focus is required for the seed to burst open so that the plant may grow.”

“Signs of spiritual growth are subtle at first and yet, eventually, evidence of our inner work becomes so obvious that our world is transformed. Before the transformation bears fruit, however, we must labour with great trust when we have no sense of our growth happening. We may indeed worry that we are deluding ourselves about any progress being made at all. We might fear that our spiritual practices, prayers, meditations or study might be little more than a passing fancy or a foolish hobby. Do not let such sabotage enter your heart, beloved. The Mother brings you a message that you are, indeed, growing and you must guard your faith vigilantly. It is one of your most powerful assets on the spiritual path.

It is during those times when we are yet to see evidence of our growth in the physical world, that we can feel most uncertain, most tested – yet we must, we simply must, choose trust and faith, no matter what. It may be weeks, months or years before we feel we have enough proof int eh physical world to justify our spiritual beliefs, but this matters not. What matters is trust. The Divine Mother comes to you in this oracle telling you that she can see, hear, and feel your growth. She knows you are going to succeed spiritually, and you can trust her, when you cannot trust your own senses.

In time, your growth will have demonstrated itself in the world through your manifestations, and this will inspire you with even more trust to continue on the path. For now, have faith. Even the greatest creations stared as a single seed of thought.

This oracle comes with a special message. Do not give up. Do not let go of your dream. Stay at it. Keep working on yourself. If you are struggling to have faith, do the healing process for this oracle at any time. Soon enough, your uncertainty or tentativeness will be replaced with great confidence, certainty and knowing. Until that moment, and even then, trust without condition.

The oracle also brings this message to you: you are asked to trust in your inner senses or feelings about a person, opportunity or situation. Sometimes what doesn’t seem that promising on the surface of things, can hold tremendous promise and will be the foundation for your divine success. Likewise, sometimes what appears to be wonderful is actually not much more than a glossy surface, which will do little to support or nourish you, in actual fact. You are being asked to have the courage of your inner convictions, and to trust your own sense of intuition about what is happening in your life, or soon will be.

It takes a brave soul to rely on the feelings of the heart to guide the way, rather than relying on logic, the opinions of others, or the expectations of how things “should” be done. Do not be afraid to trust the quiet voice within, that may tell you to wait where others say to jump, or may tell you to dive in, where others say “that cannot be done.” Trust your heart and pray. Through your faith, the way will be shown and your blossoming will be protected and nurtured, through the Divine Mother’s grace.”*

~by Alana Fairchild

If you are stuck trying to make a decision, look within. What does your heart tell you? Mother Mary will speak to you through your Divine heart, and her counsel will always be wise and true. Do not take things at face value, but look beneath the layers; feel into it. How does it feel? Does it feel Light, easy and flowing? Or does it feel like a struggle? What is your heart whispering to you?

Rise above the desire to control the outcome and look at this from another perspective. Does this decision, opportunity, or person feel in alignment with your Highest Good? Does it feel in alignment with the Highest Good of All? This is key. You cannot force things to go the way that you want or wish them to go; for when we do this we meet obstacle after obstacle. We are dealing with projections rather than truth. If the Universe is showing you red flags, heed them. If the Universe is giving you a big green light, go for it! Feel into it. Know that when you decide from the heart, you cannot go wrong.

Our Lady Of The Resurrection: “The eternal light dwells in my heart and as you enter into my heart, held safe in my love for you, that light becomes visible to you. It will show you the way through any darkness, and help you understand the purpose of past suffering, so that you can let it go and be at peace, free from confusion, shame or doubt. There is divine purpose within all that is. You have been struggling and now it is time for rest. Step into the light of my heart now, beloved, and let the darkness go. The time is drawing near for your resurrection and release.”

“It is a strange paradox that when we are truly open to life, we must be prepared to die many deaths before it is time for our physical life to end. We might suffer deaths before it is time for our physical life to end. we might suffer deaths of relationships, of ideals, of identities, even of certain hopes and dreams. If we can mourn these deaths, give them proper attention and due acknowledgment, grieving in whatever way is respectful and truthful, then those deaths become sacred sacrifices on the altar of new life.

If we try to rush past these many deaths, pushing them to one side out of fear that they may mean something terrible or frightening, then we will suffer more than needs be. Perhaps we become fearful if we feel that we are not in control of life and cannot prevent its powerful unfolding, because we do not trust where life is leading us. Then too, we miss our chance to make a sacrifice and feel more connected with life, and with death as a natural part of life, we don’t have to be scared of these deaths, as painful as they may be. We can accept that they are signs that we are growing and life is flowing. We can eve use them to gain confidence that a new direction, a new life, is calling us. There is always so much more to come. Always. No matter how old we may be, or how jaded we may feel at times, there is always boundless life awaiting us. All that is needed is a willingness for us to be open to receiving it.

The oracle of Our Lady Of The Resurrection is about discovering the light after the struggle; about life after death. Perhaps the deaths you have encountered have been literal and you have lost a beloved through death, or perhaps by a parting of ways through separation of some kind. Perhaps your endings have been more subtle, internal or symbolic. Perhaps you are going through that experience right now. Whatever the case, the Divine Mother speaks to you now about the promise of her light, about the resurrection, about the fact – decreed by her – that you shall indeed rise again.

As you await the grace of her light to permeate your consciousness, and help you rise up out of the ashes of your own suffering, reborn, you are asked to take a moment and connect with the wisdom of the owl. This nocturnal creature can help you ascertain what it is that the darkness of death, the night time of the soul, has brought to you. Sometimes it is only in letting go that we are able to open up and receive. Sometimes the death opens us to new life in a way that no other situation could do. The blessing hiding in the death doesn’t make it easier to bear – we must grieve honestly – but it does bring another perspective. One of hope, of emerging light, of the realization that just as the sun breaks through the darkest nigh tat the dawn, so too will Our Lady Of The Resurrection lift us from even the deepest sorrow and gently urge us into new light, new understanding and new life. Take heed, beloved, your time of darkness is swiftly drawing to a close and a new day is soon to be upon you. The Holy Mother is with you and together you shall celebrate.”*

~ by Alana Fairchild, Artwork by Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Mother Mary is here to guide us through the death of our old ways. Our old life has come to an end. It may have been a struggle. We may have had ideas that we thought we could force into manifestation. And yet, it was always so much harder, more challenging, than we felt that it should have been. It just wasn’t fair!!!

Take a step back now, Dear One, and realize that maybe, just maybe, you have been the toddler in the sandbox for too long. Playing tug a war with the bucket. You and the Universe. The Universe may have been urging you to drop the bucket and move on to bigger and better toys. But all you could see was that bucket. Mine! I must have it! I cannot be happy without it!!!!!!! Give it to me NOW!!

Look at your hand, curled up in a tight fist. That death grip around that old, faded, cracked plastic bucket. Take a closer look. Suddenly it comes into sharp focus; this endless struggle… The sand is running through the bucket, so many holes in it’s sides. The handle is on it’s last legs, about to be ripped off. In fact, do you even remember what was so great about it to begin with? What if, finger by finger, you just release it? Just let it go? And look up and around you. How blue the sky is, how golden the sunlight is, how brightly coloured the flowers are. Get up and brush yourself off and….

Step out of the sandbox.

There’s a whole, bright, beautiful world out here!

Full of magic and possibility!

And our Divine Holy Mother Mary is here to guide you. Support you. Love you into your next level of Being, as you learn to love yourself.

Our Lady Of New Vision: “I place my sacred eye, opened, in your heart so that you may see. Let go of small dreams and become receptive to fresh vision. My eye in your heart sees great beauty. Can you see the new vision emerging? Now is the time to dare to dream, and to pray boldly and with conviction, that the most beautiful vision you can receive will come to life, in service to all.”

“There comes a time in our life when new vision is required. Perhaps what we have once imagined would fulfill us has been experienced and we are ready for something new. Or perhaps old dreams have not manifested as we thought that they would, and there is a reason for that – the vision was incomplete or in need of adjustment.

There are plenty of times in life when we have to grow to meet the vision. Sometimes, however, the vision has to grow in order to be worthy of us! Our Lady Of New Vision tells us that the vision we once were holding for ourselves is not all that it could be. She tells us we can benefit ourselves, and others, by opening up and preparing to receive a greater vision, believing absolutely that it can, and will manifest through her hold grace, in service to all.

If you are confronted with issues of self-worth then you may believe that this guidance means your vision should become smaller, but in all likelihood, it is actually the opposite that is required of you. Build a vision that is more open, more generous, more supported and more involving of those around you. Whether you know your soul tribe now, or are waiting to attract and be attracted to, those souls who will assist you on your life path, holding the vision is like flicking the light switch on. It makes you energetically more visible and magnetic to those who can assist them too, helping them to fulfill their spiritual destiny. Holding a vision of lightness and happiness can benefit all.

If you are aware of a budding vision and have been holding back perhaps thinking it is too much, then shed your doubts and open your heart to it. Do not concern yourself with how it can happen. When a vision comes from the heart as inspiration, it is the Holy Mother whispering to you in imagery, speaking of what will be, if only you allow her to flow through you so that you may become all that you are destined to be – which is a manifestation of her miraculous grace. There is nothing that is too simple of too grand. What matters is not the scope of the vision, but that it has enough of your heart in it to move you, to prompt you to pray with all your being for her help to manifest it. Let the vision shimmer into light and life through your prayer and her assistance.

No matter whether you are waiting for your true vision, or your heart has already shown you what it wishes to manifest, this oracle comes with a message for you – this is your time to pray to receive, and to act, on your intuitions and instincts, no matter how small they may seem to be. The Divine Mother is a genius of manifestation and she will have her creations come to life through the simplest and most ordinary of steps that somehow combine to manifest extraordinary beauty. if you cannot see yet, trust that she sees and is guiding you towards receiving, and realizing, the new vision. It is a time for inspiration and hope. It is is time to dream and receive, knowing that what is dreamed now, is under the blessing of the Holy Mother.”*

~ By Alana Fairchild and Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Mother Mary comes to us…. she wraps us safely in her warm embrace, promising us her full support in the manifestation of our deepest desires. She urges us into action, asking us to aim for the stars with clear intention and calm focus, reminding us that anything and everything is possible when she is our ally.

Have faith, Dear One, and know that it is safe to expand your dreams to much larger proportions, you have been holding back for far too long. What you seek is yours, all you must do is receive it with grace and gratitude.

Our Lady Of Radiant Grace: “The descent of my grace changes everything. Your body, your mind and your soul are brought to life in new ways, and freedom opens up to you. Can you release your familiarity with, and attachment to, old ways of being? Can you release your expectation of enslavement and control? You are my child. When you place your trust in me, I allow no-one to harm you, no-thing to confine your spirit. You are free to live wildly and expansively. There shall be no prison for your soul, beloved of mine. Your soul shall be in love with the earth and fly free.”

Like an animal that has been wounded and must learn to release aggression and distrust, in order to know love and tenderness, we too must learn how to trust again and again. The nature of modern culture is that it tries to kill the soul and break the spirit. We are pushed and prodded into fitting into stereotypes, humbled into believing we are not enough just as we are, and manipulated into believing we must buy our way into status in order to have worth. The body is humiliated by comparisons and judgments, and the spirit is derided by beliefs that if you cannot see or touch it physically, then it isn’t real. You aren’t in the “real world” if you believe in spiritual matters and you are delusional and naive if you aim to live from love rather than from scarcity, power games and fear.

This is part of the test of being human. We were born to rise above these humiliations and disparagements, to become stronger than them, wiser than them. In doing so, we help liberate others as well; showing the way, a more authentic and healing way, to live. We were born, not to fear our bodies and deny our spirits, but to love the earth and fly with the wings of the Holy Mother’s grace.

Even with powerful and marvellous wings upon our back, and the perfect current in the air through which to soar into freedom and exhilaration, if we do not trust enough to leap, all that comes to nothing.

To live into our divine destiny, which is so much nobler, more compassionate, kind, emotionally rich, creative and rebellious than modern culture would have us believe, we need to trust. We need to trust that we are enough, and that we are worthy of receiving. This is not some misplaced sense of entitlement, or belief that the world owes us, or that the suffering of others only matters (if at all) when we have all our own needs met. The spiritual grace of the Holy Mother does not revolve around the immature tantrums of thwarted egos! The ability to receive what this oracle speaks of requires the genuine, heart centered realization that the Divine lives and breathes as us, and wants to come into full expression through all that we are – unique talents and quirky visions included.

For this trust to manifest, and for us to be freed from self-imposed prisons that would lock us into fearful doubt and confusion, we need the radiant grace of Our Lady. That radiant grace is sunlight cutting through cloud and illuminating the earth in golden light. That grace is the joyful gasp that erupts from your lips when you witness a spontaneous beautiful moment in the natural world. That is the grace that lifts us. We see that the door on the cage we once believed ourselves to be locked within, is actually not locked at all. That grace is the chutzpah we need to kick the door open and dare to step outside. It is the Divine Mother, standing on the other side of the unlocked cage door that we have just kicked open, beckoning us to join her. She stands there, in a lush field of wild flowers, hair blowing in the wind, calling to us. She says, “Come here, beloved of mine. Step into this wild world with me. We have so much to share together, and with the rest of the world. Let’s go rattle some cages! Freedom awaits all of my children.”

This oracle comes to you at at time when, whether you are conscious of it or not, a greater spiritual embodiment is upon you. This will take great courage to accept. You will not necessarily feel in control, or understand some of the changes in relationships and life circumstances that happen as a result of this greater divine presence manifesting within your being. These changes are manifesting, through the Mother’s grace, to allow for you to be free. Remember that freedom does not mean being alone. Freedom comes with a sense of having living your destiny without obstruction. That will include having deep and connected relationships that feed and nourish the soul. Allow the Mother to flow into your heart and be with you as you trust in what is unfolding now, through her radiant grace.”

~by Alana Fairchild and Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Read the first paragraph three times, out loud if possible. Feel the Divine Mother speaking it to you… through you. Take the time, right now as you read this, silently or aloud, to make an agreement with Mother Mary of Divine Grace. Give your complete trust to her; all of your faith. Complete surrender in her Divine Love, support, acceptance and bright shining Light. Let her warm embrace surround you, hold you, take you in. You are safe, Dear One, you are loved beyond measure. Feel into it. Breathe it into every cell, fill yourself full of this light and let it radiate out from you. Give yourself this time to fully and consciously experience the shift in perception being offered to you here.

Right Now.

Know that things can be different, starting now. Allow them to be different, right Now. Know that this is not something to be chased, prayed for or wished upon. It is Now. Know that the world has opened up to you in a deep and profound way, yet physically, materially it may take a little to catch up… but this no longer matters. The shift is deep within.

Our Lady Of Divine Direction: “I am guiding you, my child, and I ask you to trust me. Recently you had, or soon you will have, a sudden change in direction in a matter that perhaps surprises you. Do not resist this. Allow my hand to guide the course of your life direction. I have foreseen a pitfall that you can easily avoid, whilst still reaching your destination. Pray to me and trust, and together we shall journey on towards the goal.”

“There are times when the quickest way to a destination is not the most obvious or direct route. When you have the wise eyes of the Mother watching over your journey, she will nudge you to take an alternative route if there is a big hole in the middle of the road up ahead – even though you can’t see it as yet. Perhaps you have had an experience driving home when you felt that your usual route wasn’t such a good idea. You either trusted your gut and went a different way, only to find out later there was a big accident and backed up traffic on your traditional route. Or you ignored your intuition, only to end up at that big accident, and stuck in the backed up traffic!

This mundane example can apply in larger circumstances. Perhaps you are trying for entry into a particular course, or applying for particular jobs, only to find that again and again you are knocked back. Now, yes, if this is truly in your heart, then you must continue. Perhaps the knock backs are helping you to build trust and self belief, which you will need to be able to do the job that you are seeking, without losing your inner connection and spirituality. This might be so, especially if the company you are eventually going to work for has some dark or negative tendencies in its corporate culture. Perhaps part of your undercover spiritual work in taking on an administrative role there, for example, is to help balance the spiritual light in the organization. You would need a strong inner light to be able to do that, and not become depressed and disconnected in that toxic culture. Circumstances in your life might be building your inner light so that you are ready for your future work. This happens more often than we might expect.

However, if something is not truly in your heart, but more in your mind, out of habit or not seeing any other way, then you may well find closed doors. If you were to glimpse behind those doors, you would notice Mother Mary on the other side, shutting them firmly in your face, after whispering to you to go down the hall and try a different door!

Our Lady Of Divine Direction arises when you are pursuing a path and there is going to be a nudge in a different direction. This is either coming soon or has just happened. This oracle say s to trust in that, and the reason for it will become apparent later on. It might be to build yourself spiritually, or it could simply be a timing issue. It might, however indicate that a slightly (or very) different path is actually going to help you get to where you need to go.”*

~ by Alana Fairchild and Shiloh Sophia MCCloud

You are not alone on this journey of transformation and change, Dear One, I am with you each step of the way. Fear not, and persevere as we move forward on your true path. I am right here at your side, guiding you always. Listen closely and you will hear me whisper in your ear. Look for me in your dreams. Ask me questions and I will show you the answers. Look for signs and messages from me and see them all around you, particularly when you need them most. When you are fearful, reach out for me and I will embrace you. I will bring you the people who will help you, just ask me. I will open the doors that you are too scared to open for yourself and gently nudge you through. If you let me. I will shut the doors that are not for your highest good, particularly those that lead you back into your past patterns and limitations, please trust me. Your past illusions of safety and security no longer support you in this journey.

All you need to do is trust, Dear One, and together we can travel to realms you have only dreamed of. Together we will co-create a life of joy, passion, and fulfillment.

“You have been preparing to receive me, opening your heart and clearing away past shame and doubt. You have been asking for the divine light to be with you and I tell you now, I am alive within the divine light to be with you and I tell you know, I am alive within you. Your wish to serve the world, to be blessed by my light so that you can assist others, is granted. As you open your heart and mind to me, your every touch becomes my touch. Your loving gaze holds the light of my own eyes within it. My grace lives in you, flowing through you, into the heart of the world.

There comes a time on our spiritual path when that which was once idea of philosophy, is ready to become a living experience. It can be a time of exhilaration and excitement as one begins to live my metaphysical principles, building reliance upon trust, prayer and intuition, and the benevolent guidance and protection of unconditionally loving higher beings, such as Mother Mary. It is the beginning of taking one’s spiritual life beyond ideas and into a living, breathing reality. As this happens, the soul can relax into life and many opportunities open up. This happens repeatedly, in increasing degrees, throughout our life path. We soften and open, to allow in more divine light, and learn how to live it with trust.

Whilst this is a continuing work in progress for us spiritually, there are milestones that we achieve, which mark times when we are about to shift up a notch in our spiritual frequency. In such moments we are becoming more capable of allowing the divine presence to live in us, less obstructed by the workings of our ego. Once this can happen to a certain degree, healing can flow through us, whether we consider ourselves to be a healer or not. This healing energy has a constructive effect on our own life and the lives of those around us.

This oracle comes to you in confirmation that you are opening up to living divine presence, and it is having an effect on you and your life. Perhaps you are at a point in your life when a path is opening up and taking you in a different direction to what you expected. Perhaps you want to know if this is divinely orchestrated and should therefore be trusted and followed. Perhaps you are feeling emotional, or physical ups and downs, which might be connected to your spiritual path, as you release old emotional pain, and new spiritual energy enters your mind and body. The may be happening because you have started practicing yoga or meditation, spending more time in nature, or are changing your lifestyle to become more loving and kind towards yourself.”*

~by Alana Fairchild and Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Here we have another reminder to keep our hearts open; to be a conduit of Unconditional love and light; healing ourselves while we help to heal others and even the planet. Mother Mary is always with us, she is omnipresent, she is always willing to assist us in opening ourselves to more and more Divine Light. She asks us to trust in this process; pray our fears and doubts away; use our intuition to hear her gentle guidance; and know that she will always be close by, protecting us and keeping us safe. Her energy is the perfection of Motherhood, the nurturing, accepting, loving and all encompassing Love. She is all that we strive to be as mothers, and all that we sought from our own, possibly imperfect mothers. She is warm and soothing and protective. She is everything we ever felt we needed. She is the connection to the deep inner Divine Feminine wisdom and the Mother Goddess energy. And she is here to help and offer her love.